Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, right, is escorted by soldiers and marines to a waiting helicopter at a federal hangar in Mexico City on Jan. 8, 2016, after his arrest. (Marco Ugarte / AP)

It was last week that Sánchez recounted for jurors the wild story of how Chapo, whose real name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera, escaped a near arrest five years ago by running naked through a sewer.

Sánchez, 29, said she had been lying in bed with Chapo in February 2014 when an elite team of U.S. and Mexican forces began breaking down the door of their safe house in Culiacán. The lovers escaped through a tunnel hidden under a pop-up bathtub, she said.

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York shows Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, a former mistress of El Chapo who has testified at his Brooklyn trial. (/ AP)

Coronel, also 29, gave a little smirk when Sánchez wept on the witness stand but otherwise maintained her haughty demeanor, especially when Sánchez described sharing Chapo’s bed.

“It was the love words he would use with me always,” she told the jury at Chapo’s drug trafficking trial now in its tenth week in Brooklyn federal court.

Sánchez said Chapo implored her to visit him in prison after his 2014 arrest. When she did, photos were published in the Mexican news outlet Televisa, and she was fired from her job as a local congresswoman, she said.

The former legislator ultimately was arrested herself in San Diego, Calif., in 2017 after U.S. authorities pieced together evidence she trafficked drugs and helped launder money for the Sinaloa Cartel.